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Saturday, May 10, 2008
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There has been a mixed reaction to India’s foreign minister, Pranab Mukherjee’s statement on the Dalai Lama made days before the Olympics torch arrived for its Delhi leg. The senior minister told a media channel that: “The Dalai Lama is a respected guest of India. The nation will continue to offer him all hospitality, but during his stay in India, he should not indulge in any political activity, that could adversely affect relations between India and China.” When asked for his reaction, the Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile, Sandhong Rinpoche told FORCE (see interview) that, “These statements are not new. Ever since we arrived in India in 1959, the position of the Indian government has been consistent.” This exactly is the problem. The stature of China and the Dalai Lama has changed so more... |
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Hope. Helplessness. Rage. Faith. Courage. Desperation. Triumph. Emotions were aplenty at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on April 17. They permeated the hot and humid air; resounded in the voices of the protesting Tibetans who had collected there in strength from all over India; and stared the onlookers in the face through the banners that exhorted Tibetans to: Rise Up, Resist and Return.
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In terms of Strategic Reach, what are the capabilities that the IAF would like to achieve by the end of 11th and 12th Plan Period?
Our defence forces have to maintain their sharp edge. Option of utilisation of aerospace and modern technology will have significant impact on a force like IAF. To meet these challenges we constantly review our equipment, organisational and training policies so as to ensure efficient utilisation of our resources to meet the laid down objectives in a comprehensive fashion. Towards this, it is our endeavour to make good all deficiencies, upgrade the existing equipment and procure state of the art weapon systems. These would include systems, enhanced airlift capability etc. IAF’s aim to arrest force depletion by suitable replacements and carry out mid-life upgrades to maintain operational more... |
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These days PROFESSOR SANDHONG RINPOCHE, Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile, is an angry man. Such is the seething anger and writhing helplessness within that his monk’s robe can barely conceal his agitation. By his own admission, he is deeply disturbed at the way events have turned out in Lhasa. Addressing the protesting Tibetans at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, he said that there is no question of any compromise with China. “There is a possibility that China may come down very violently against the Tibetans living in Tibet after the Olympics, but we are prepared for that,” he said, his usually soft voice rising in decibels. In an interview to FORCE, he talks about the future of the Tibetan movement.
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Having succeeded in bringing together nearly all the chiefs-of-navy of the Indian Ocean Region in February this year for the conceptual launch of 'Indian Ocean Naval Symposium' initiative, or IONS, the Indian Navy is quietly going about giving tangible form and substance to the business of knitting together the region through port-calls and a variety of capacity-building and capability enhancement
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